How can i read table that is inside a table

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Yeah, there are some modifications that could be done to make it more understandable. What I’d written allowed for a tad more flexibility. If your table’s keys started with Question and ended with a number, you could do…

local QuestionsTable = {
	Question1={
		1,
		"rwaer",
		50
	},
	Question2={
		41,
		"cool",
		"nice"
	}
}

local question = QuestionsTable["Question" .. math.random(1, 2)]

The only issue with this is that:

  1. The number of questions are hard-coded in math.random, and
  2. If key Question was misspelled or didn’t have consistent capitalization, it wouldn’t throw an error.

The solution I gave prior would be the best way to go about it. Here’s something slightly more modified to make it more readable.

local QuestionsTable = {
	Question1={
		1,
		"rwaer",
		50
	},
	Question2={
		41,
		"cool",
		"nice"
	}
}
local TotalQuestions = 0 -- Since dictionaries do not have numbered indices, we have to keep track of the number of questions manually.

for _ in next, QuestionsTable do
	TotalQuestions = TotalQuestions + 1 -- Increments the TotalQuestions 1 by, later used for math.random.
end

local function GetQuestion(num)
	local QuestionInfo = nil -- No question found yet
	for Question, Data in pairs(QuestionsTable) do
		local temp = string.lower(string.sub(Question, 1, 8)) -- string.lower lowercases all letters, removing case-sensitivity. string.sub returns the letters between positions A and B.
		if temp == "question" then
			local qnum = tonumber(string.sub(Question, 9)) -- tonumber converts a string to a number (if applicable). string.sub returns every letter after the C position in the string.
			if qnum ~= nil and qnum == num then -- Does Question<X> match what we want?
				QuestionInfo = Data -- Set QuestionInfo to the question's data
				break
			end
		end
	end
	return QuestionInfo -- Return the data
end

local RandomQuestionNum = math.random(1, TotalQuestions) -- Get a random number between 1 and the total number of questions in the table.
local QuestionToPresent = GetQuestion(RandomQuestionNum) -- Attempt to get the question with desired number.
if QuestionToPresent ~= nil then -- Did it manage to find the question?
	print(QuestionToPresent)
	-- code
end

Lmk if you have any further questions :+1:

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